Antonio Pintus

Antonio Pintus

Pintus with Real Madrid in 2016
Personal information
Date of birth	(1962-09-26) 26 September 1962 (age 63)
Place of birth	Torino, Italy
Team information
Current team	Real Madrid (conditioning coach)
Managerial career
Years	Team
1986–1991	Settimo (conditioning coach)
1991–1998	Juventus (conditioning coach)
1998–2000	Chelsea (conditioning coach)
2001	Udinese (conditioning coach)
2001–2005	Monaco (conditioning coach)
2006–2007	Juventus (conditioning coach)
2008–2010	West Ham United (conditioning coach)
2010–2011	Marseille (conditioning coach)
2011–2012	Marseille Consolat (conditioning coach)
2012–2013	Palermo (conditioning coach)
2013–2015	Sunderland (conditioning coach)
2016–2019	Real Madrid (conditioning coach)
2019–2021	Inter Milan (conditioning coach)
2021–2025	Real Madrid (conditioning coach)
2025–2026	Real Madrid (performance manager)
2026–	Real Madrid (conditioning coach)

Antonio Pintus (born 26 September 1962) is an Italian fitness coach, currently working as a conditioning coach for Real Madrid. ^{[1] [2]}

Career

Pintus has previously worked for Chelsea, West Ham and Sunderland in England, Monaco, Marseille and Consolat Marseille in France, and for Udinese, Juventus, Palermo and Inter Milan in Italy. ^[3] He started his conditioning coach career in 1986, and has worked with multiple title and cup winning managers, including Giovanni Trapattoni, Marcello Lippi, Gianluca Vialli, Didier Deschamps, Gian Piero Gasperini, Rafael Benítez, Zinedine Zidane, Antonio Conte, and Carlo Ancelotti.

Pintus has visited the NASA space agency several times, giving talks about how his methods could be applied to their work and how astronauts can keep fit on missions. Judith Hayes, NASA's chief science officer, stated that Pintus data-based approach to physical fitness challenged their status quo, saying that "Our scientists, exercise physiologists, astronauts, physicians, trainers, and engineers hung on every word that he had to share with us. He was able to challenge our people and our thinking. It made us think about different ways to look at things." ^[4]

References

1. "Antonio Pintus: Real Madrid's secret 12th man". marca.com. 11 September 2022.
2. • "Antonio Pintus, el hombre clave de la pretemporada del Real Madrid en que se fijó el Rey Juan Carlos". eldebate.com. 18 July 2022.
   • "El 'método Pintus' o cómo crear un Real Madrid que sobrepasa los límites". 20minutos.es. May 2022.
   • "Antonio Pintus, el jugador número 12". vavel.com. 6 April 2023.
   • "Antonio Pintus: Real Madrid's secret 12th man". marca.com. 11 September 2022.
   • "Quién es es Antonio Pintus?". goal.com.
   • "Se nota que es Pintus". libertaddigital.com. May 2022.
   • "Pintus, l'uomo che fa correre il Real: "La fatica aiuta a restare giovani"". repubblica.it. 8 June 2022.
   • "Pintus, l'uomo che ha messo le ali al Real: nessuno come le merengues in Europa dal 75′ in poi". ilposticipo.it.
   • "La leyenda de Pintus: el preparador físico que flipa a los madridistas con su método secreto". elconfidencial.es. 8 June 2021.
   • "¿Por qué es tan bueno Antonio Pintus?". abc.es. 4 June 2021.
   • "Antonio Pintus, el primer fichaje de Zidane". elpais.com (Archived). Archived from the original on 1 September 2023.
   • "¿Y el 'método Pintus'? Las dudas del Madrid sobre el preparador físico de Zidane". elconfidencial.com. 21 November 2017.
   • "El milagro de Antonio Pintus: el método que ha revolucionado al Madrid". elespanol.com. 20 July 2017.
   • "Pintus toma el poder de la preparación física de todos los equipos del Real Madrid". abc.es. 6 June 2021.
3. Cortegana, Mario. "Loved, feared, ever-present - who is Antonio Pintus, Real Madrid's physical trainer?". The New York Times.
4. Guillermo, Rai. "How Real Madrid's physical trainer Antonio Pintus is helping NASA with the Artemis moon programme". The New York Times.